{"id":27760,"date":"2025-09-13T07:33:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/french-marine-commando-2-gun-cetme-b-mac-50-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:33:52","slug":"french-marine-commando-2-gun-cetme-b-mac-50-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/french-marine-commando-2-gun-cetme-b-mac-50-2\/","title":{"rendered":"French Marine Commando 2-Gun: CETME-B &#038; MAC-50"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EgZHnLePcH8?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Check out Headstamp Publishing&#8217;s extensive catalog of excellent books:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/home-forgotten\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/home-forgotten<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a well-documented incident of the French intercepting a couple hundred CETME-B rifles being smuggled to the FLN in Algeria, and putting them into service with the Marine Commandos. I managed to get a CETME-B parts kit and have it built into a complete rifle (thanks, Parabellum Combat Systems!) and I figured that a 2-Gun match would be a good place to try it out, complete with French lizard camo and a MAC-50 pistol. And it turned out it performed great!<\/p>\n<p>The CETME-B is a really neat developmental step on the path that led to the G3 rifle. I&#8217;ll have a full video on the rifle coming later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out Headstamp Publishing&#8217;s extensive catalog of excellent books:https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/home-forgotten There is a well-documented incident of the French intercepting a couple hundred CETME-B rifles being smuggled to the FLN in Algeria, and putting them into service with the Marine Commandos. I managed to get a CETME-B parts kit and have it built into a complete rifle&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/french-marine-commando-2-gun-cetme-b-mac-50-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French Marine Commando 2-Gun: CETME-B &#038; MAC-50<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}